4 Secret Subways Hiding Underground | Mental Floss

NYC Takes Subway Riders Underground with Amazing Flickr ...

NYC's MTA has a secret weapon that helps keep it relevant to the city's transit riders that spend more time looking at phones than subway stops. NYC's MTA has a secret weapon that helps keep it relevant to the city's transit riders that spend more time looking at phones than subway stops.

Bridges & Tunnels | MTA

The northbound lanes of the Henry Hudson Parkway leading to the Bronx-bound Henry Hudson Bridge will be closed Sunday, July 1 between 4 a.m. and noon for the biking portion of the NYC Triathlon. Motorists should use an alternate route during this period and expect delays.

New York City, bridges, traffic, tools, tunnels | MTA

Queens Midtown Tunnel To accommodate ongoing accelerated Sandy Restoration work, one tube will be closed weekends, Friday from 10:00 PM until Monday at 6:00 AM, and on weeknights, Monday to Thursday from 9:00 PM through 6:00 AM.

mta.info | MTA Subway Map

List of bridges and tunnels in New York City - Wikipedia

New York features bridges of many lengths and types, carrying vehicular, bicycle, pedestrian, and subway traffic. The George Washington Bridge, spanning the Hudson River between New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey, is the world's busiest bridge in terms of vehicular traffic.

Subway Tunnel Will Be Closed Entirely in Week …

Dec 12, 2017 · The tunnel shutdown is part of the $836 million Subway Action Plan, an ambitious overhaul being overseen by Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, since Mr. Cuomo declared the emergency in July.

In Photos: Inside tour of flooded NYC Subway, Tunnels

Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels …

Sep 27, 2017 · The MTA's man in charge of the bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin's questions Wednesday. "I said no comment," he said. Some MTA board members, including New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, say they know too little about the towers – even with half the money already spent and …

Bridges & Tunnels | MTA

The northbound lanes of the Henry Hudson Parkway leading to the Bronx-bound Henry Hudson Bridge will be closed Sunday, July 1 between 4 a.m. and noon for the biking portion of the NYC Triathlon. Motorists should use an alternate route during this period and expect delays.

Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels …

Sep 27, 2017 · NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they'll start appearing at bridges, too. But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can't say why they're being used or what's in them, CBS2's Dave Carlin reports.

How Do You Build a Subway Tunnel Under Water? - VICE

The New York City subway system has 16 subway tunnel connections underneath water bodies, if we're counting smaller gaps, like the Newtown Creek and Harlem River. That number grows if we add in the tunnels for the Long Island Rail Road, PATH Train, New Jersey Transit, and Amtrak.

Worker Dies After Fall in Manhattan Subway Tunnel …

Mar 20, 2018 · St. Clair Ziare Richards-Stephens, a 23-year-old subway worker, died early Tuesday after an accident in a train tunnel. A worker making repairs to a subway tunnel in Manhattan was killed early Tuesday when …

Exclusive look at new floodgates for MTA's …

Five years ago, Superstorm Sandy forced the closing of the Queens Midtown and Hugh Carey tunnels, inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of commuters for weeks. On Sunday, MTA's Bridges and Tunnels Division tested newly installed 25-ton floodgates on the Manhattan side of the Hugh Carey Tunnel.

Subways | LTV Squad

The subway tunnels of NYC are a dark, dirty, often deadly place. We suggest that you do not enter these tunnels ( it is after all "illegal"), but if you find yourself compelled to, study these tunnels well before you make the jump off the platform.

: Chapter 11. The River Tunnels

New Yorkers can start using a secret subway tunnel …

If you're heading northbound on an N, Q, or R train from 57th Street, for a second, you'll get a glimpse of it, but according to archivists for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), New York's governing body of public transit, it's only appeared on subway maps for two brief periods in 1995 and 1998.

: The Steinway Tunnels (1960)

On July 22, 1887, Walter S. Gurnee (1813-1903) prominent banker and industrialist of New York City who had been one of the original financial backers of the West Side & Yonkers Patent Ry. (see ERR #25), incorporated the New York & Long Island Railroad Co. under the New York State General Railroad Act of 1850.